Serge B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2097) [videorecording] / interviewed by Claudine Drame and Liliane Lacombe, June 5, 1992.

Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992.

1 videorecording (45 min.) : col.

French

This testimony is in French.

Videotape testimony of Serge B., who was born in France in 1921. He recalls his parents were Russian immigrants; their assimilated, secular life in Paris; not feeling Jewish until German invasion; his father's escape from the July 1942 round-up with help from a police friend; being sent with his siblings to live with their uncle in Cannes; joining the Resistance; becoming head of his group; arrest in 1943; violent interrogations; the Gestapo discovering he was Jewish; transfer to a prison in Nice, then Drancy; digging an escape tunnel with fourteen prisoners; discovery of the tunnel; confinement with the fourteen; deportation east; escape from the train with nineteen others; walking alone to Bar-le-Duc; help from a pastor; traveling to Paris; going to the address of a friend's fiancé; hiding; Resistance activities; obtaining false papers; and reunion with his wife (she was protected by her Turkish citizenship). Mr. B. attributes the escape and tunnel building to their determination and hope.

June 01, 2002

Serge B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2097). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Serge B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2097). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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